Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017

Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by aikorevs on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:51AM (#13929626)

Just learned that:

Most Popular Languages by Occupation

  For Sysadmin / DevOps no 1 is JavaScript
  For Data Scientist / Engineer no 1 is JavaScript

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by darekkay on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:15AM (#13929724)

This is a little bit misleading. This was a multiple choice question, so it's understable that most people have used JavaScript in some way within their projects. This doesn't mean, that JavaScript ist the most used language in those categories by the time spent using it.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by thefarseeker on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:09AM (#13929970)

That was my takeaway too. If you ever had to change a spelling error in the front-end of a devopsy-style tool, then chances are you wrote some javascript, and bam: top of the list.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by nol13 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:37AM (#13929827)

My instant takeaway: Does China have their own version of stack overflow or is it due to the firewall? That many more developers in India vs. China or is English just more commonly spoken in India?

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by TorKlingberg on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:49AM (#13930829)

English is much more widely spoke in India. It used to be a British colony, and English is an official language.

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